8th Jan 2014

Happy New Year! There’s a lot to catch up on after the Christmas and New Year break, so here’s a bumper edition of the Arabidopsis Research Round-Up!
Westwood JH, Groen SC, Du Z, et al. A trio of viral proteins tunes aphid–plant interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLOS ONE, 11...

7th Jan 2014

Rothamsted Research scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, funded by the BBSRC Crop Science Initiative, have discovered a gene that contributes to the coppicing response of willows.
Willows (Salix spp.) are of commercial...

7th Jan 2014

The GARNet team is pleased to announce that two of its 2014 events are now open for registration!
1) 9-10 April 2014, University of Warwick - Software Carpentry for Plant Scientists: A Practical Introduction to Programming for Biologists
Firstly, on 9-10 April we will be hosting a Software...

12th Dec 2013

We have launched a website for GARNet 2014 at http://garnet2014.org/
Registration for GARNet 2014 Arabidopsis: The Ongoing Green Revolution will open in January.
We are delighted to announce the full line-up for the conference:
Session 1: Genome Biology
Plenary speaker – Rob...

2nd Dec 2013

Just a couple of papers to highlight in this week’s Arabidopsis Research Round-up; one from the John Innes Centre, and the other a new software resource from the University of Glasgow.
Tantanarat K, O’Neill EC, Rezjek M, Field R and Limpanseni T. Expression and characterization of...